Edmund Turrell (1781 – May 1835) was an English engraver and civil engineer.

Biography

He lived at 46

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. Nothing has been discovered about his ancestry and early life. He was involved with the civil engineer

Thomas Telford Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well ...

, for whom he engraved the 65 plates in Telford's autobiography. Turrell was elected an Associate of the

Institution of Civil Engineers The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a Charitable organization, charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters ar ...

in 1823. He also was known as an architectural engraver, and employed James Carter early in his career; he may have also written his surname as "Tyrrel". When

steel engraving Steel engraving is a technique for printing illustrations on paper using steel printing plates instead of copper, the harder metal allowing a much longer print run before the image quality deteriorates. It has been rarely used in artistic printmak ...

was introduced to the art world in the 1820s by

Jacob Perkins Jacob Perkins (July 9, 1766 – July 30, 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist based in the United Kingdom. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a ...

, in 1824 Turrell received three gold medals from the Society of Arts for his etching fluid, composed of pyroligneous acid, nitric acid, and alcohol. He married Mary Anne Rawles in 1833 in Camden. He died aged 53 or 54 and was buried 24 May 1835 at

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.''London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003''

Writings

* "Description of an Improved Mode of Constructing Muffles for Chemical Purposes", ''Nicholson's Journal'', xxi, 275, 1806 * For ''

Rees's Cyclopædia Rees's ''Cyclopædia'', in full ''The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature'', was an important 19th-century British people, British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees (1743–1825), a Presbyterian minis ...

'', he contributed the article on Enamelling (Vol 13), 1809

References

External links

WorldCat page
1780s births 1835 deaths English engravers Date of birth missing Engravers from London {{England-artist-stub